Piece de Resistance
Proving those "Desperate Housewives" gals (and guys) are anything but, an anonymous female bidder attending an auction Thursday in Beverly Hills to benefit the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation forked over $100,000 for a lunch for six, including "Desperate" star Teri Hatcher.
The story goes that originally it was a lunch for four. Then Hatcher jumped onstage and added herself to the ticket, too. When the bids hit $35,000, the actress announced that she'd sweeten the pot with "Desperate" hunk James Denton. "And he's gonna rub the shoulders of any woman at this lunch with me. That's gotta be worth at least another 10 [grand]." Indeed: The bidding went to $50,000, then doubled and closed at $100,000. Hatcher promised: "It will be the best lunch of your life. I will make sure of it."
Fat Joe says he comes by his weight honestly.
(Chip East -- Reuters)
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Wasn't in the Cards, Michael
Is The Donald rethinking his invite to Michael Jackson?
Us Weekly magazine said this week that Donald Trump and his partner in the Trump International Hotel & Tower, Phil Ruffin, had chatted with Jackson's peeps about the currently embattled Gloved One doing a slew of concerts at Ruffin's New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
"It's an interesting idea, but I don't think he'd show up half the time," the tycoon dished to the syndicated entertainment show "The Insider." "I can't imagine what the insurance policy would be like."
How to Punctuate a Sentence
Tom Sizemore was sentenced to jail time Thursday after repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation. How did the bad-boy actor respond? By rejoicing as he left the courthouse.
"I won! I'm free," he said, dismissing the prosecutor in his domestic abuse case as "a chump. He's a C student. He's a piece of garbage."
Sizemore's lawyers plan to appeal the sentence of 17 months in jail and four months in a drug treatment facility. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. released him on $25,000 bail pending the outcome of that appeal, which could take more than two years.
Maybe Barreto was touched by Sizemore's tearful plea for leniency, in which the actor sobbed that he was "engaged in a struggle right now to regain the better part of who I am. . . . I never thought I had this disease . . .
"I assure your honor that I'm not acting now. I'm not acting, I'm begging, I'm beseeching you. I can't imagine my future without performing."
Later Thursday, Sizemore, perhaps best known for his role in "Saving Private Ryan," was sentenced to inpatient drug treatment in a separate felony methamphetamine case.
Fat Joe: No-Fry Zone
Fat Joe is staying right where he is.
"I don't cheat," the rapper divulged about his physique maintenance, according to the Associated Press. "I don't eat fried foods. Now and then I will eat some pasta . . . but I worked too hard to get here, I worked too hard to get where I am to sit up in the crib eating some fried chicken and some pork fried rice. It's NOT going down."
Hey, he doesn't call himself Fat Joe for nothin'.
Noted . . .
It's so over. Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce from Brad Pitt yesterday, citing the usual irreconcilable differences. In her petition the 36-year-old actress asked that her maiden name be restored . . . Former Channel 9 morning weather guesser Hillary Howard has a new gig starting Monday: Reading the news at classical station WGMS, 103.5 FM, during morning drive time. Howard enjoys classical music but admits she's a "neophyte" when it comes to the particulars of the genre. "I have a lot to learn as far as matching the composers to the music," she told The Post's John Maynard.
. . . and Quoted
"That's like asking a mother to choose which child is her favorite!"
-- Ellen DeGeneres's initial response when InStyle mag asked her to name her favorite cocktail.
-- Compiled by Anne Schroeder
from staff and wire reports
